Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] had got " in BNC.

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1 Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him .
2 And her mind did n't question how she had got into this situation but how she was going to get out of it .
3 How she had got an ambulance .
4 It was several minutes before he had found the courage to ask her how she had got to the beach .
5 In her desperate condition , stuck on some rock of a planet without a trace of memory as to how she had got there , the drink felt pretty much like her only reason for living .
6 God knows how she had got hold of them , he thought .
7 Huy wondered how long she had been in the capital , and how she had got there .
8 Almost without knowing how she had got there , Folly found herself on the other side of the double doors , pushing through a curtain of leaves that shrouded the entrance .
9 How she had got that name no-one dared ask .
10 So Edward had come back to see how she had got on .
11 I could n't remember how we had got into this conversation .
12 How they had got onto this Wilson could not remember , but Mrs Browning was the more worried .
13 I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time .
14 Something that linked them , was a reminder of how they had got there .
15 She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again .
16 They had arrived in the bedroom without knowing how they had got there .
17 Last week it despatched entry forms for the Scottish Marketing Awards to its members , encouraging them to show how they had got to the top of the class .
18 He kept wondering how it had got Silk .
19 How it had got to London from Houston he did not know or want to know .
20 It was only now that it was over that she realised quite how it had got to her .
21 We wondered how it had got there .
22 But that 's how it had got to be in the early days , otherwise it would have cost more to run than I took .
23 He did not know how he had got the door to this place to open .
24 When it poured down incessantly he saw only too clearly how he had got stuck , was at an impasse , handicapped as he was in so many respects .
25 And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me .
26 He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was .
27 They were burning to know how he had got on in New York , and Isobel asked him .
28 And was this how he had got under Elise 's skin ?
29 That was how he had got the job , even though he was another unemployed nineteen year old .
30 He stayed immobile , trying desperately to identify where he was and to recall how he had got there .
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